Method of making channeled bag frames



Sept 1933- w. c. HIERING 1,925,804

METHOD OF MAKING CHANNELED BAG FRAMES Filed Nov. 16, 1932 ATTORN EYPatented Sept. 5, 1933 PATENT oF ic METHOD OF MAKING CHANNELED BAGFRAMES William C. Hiering, Millburn Township, Essex County, N. J.,assignor to J. E. Mergoth Company, Newark, N. J., a corporation ofDelaware Application November 16, 1932 Serial No. 642,860

4 Claims.

This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of framesections for bags and purses, especially for traveling, chatelaine andsimilar bags.

The object of my invention is to overcome present difficulties indispensing with the numerous simple means for connecting the pivotmembers with the main body of the frame section, in order to produce abag frame with sharp angular corners, by making a frame from one pieceof material, thereby producing a neat, sharp and solid corner angle freefrom open joints and one in which the cracking or puckering of the metalat the corners of the frame during the process of manufacture of thesame is entirely-overcome.

These and other advantageous objects, which will later appear, areaccomplished by the simple and practical construction, combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter described and exhibited in theaccompanying drawing, forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates a perspective face view of a bag-frame sectioncomprising a main body and its pivot members bent at right angles tosaid main body, the parts being secured in their angular relation bymeans embodying the principles of the present invention,

Fig. 2 illustrates a metal strip blank which subsequently forms the bagframe member,

Fig. 3 illustrates a face view of a portion of the main body of theframe-section and a portion of one of its connected pivot members afterthe strip has been channeled but before the latter is bent and securedin its angular and bent relation to the said main body,

Fig. 4 illustrates a portion of the channelled blank partly bent,

Fig. 5 illustrates a sectional view of one of the bent corner portionsof a frame-section, and

Fig. 6-illustrates a perspective view of the same.

Similar letters'of reference refer to like parts throughout thespecification and drawing.

In describing the process forming a part of my invention I willsimultaneously describe the product of the same, so that those skilledin the art to which it pertains may gain a full knowledge of theprocess, as well as the product.

In Fig. 2, I have shown ametal strip which subsequently forms the bagframe member, and it will be seen that during the process of producingthe channeled and angularly bent frame memof the channel will close theopenings therein.

bent with oppositely arranged, preferably triangular-shaped openings3-3, separated by the connecting strip 4, the apex of said openings 3terminating a short distance from the edges of the strip.

After the metal strip has been channelled as illustrated in Fig. 3, thestrip 4, which is apart of the bottom wall 5 of the channeled strip andof a width corresponding to the inside of the channel so that when themain body member 1 and the hinge member 2 are bent as indicated in Figs.4 and/5 and 6 of the drawing so as to form a bag frame sectioncomprising a main body and an integral pivot member at each end of saidbody member, the said strip 4 will be doubled or bent upon itself asshown at 6 in Fig. 4, and when the hinge member 2 is completely bent ata right angle to the body member 1 the doubled up strip 4 will be, bysuitable means, pressed firmly against and into locking engagement withthe inside wall of the hinge member 2 and acts as a retaining lug toproduce a neat, sharp and solid corner angle and one in which thecracking or puckering of the metal at the corners of the frame duringthe process of manufacture of the same is entirely overcome. V l

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive andillustrative only, and not asrestrictive or limitative of the invention,of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including manymodifications without departing from the general scope herein indicatedand denoted in the appended claims.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Pat- .the ,metal strip, then bending the metal stripinto a channel shape so that the connecting strip will be a part of thebottom wall of the channel and the openings will be oppositely arrangedin the side walls of the channel, then bending the channelled strip sothat the connecting strip will be doubled or bent upon itself and theside walls 10 I U 2. The method of making a channelled bag frame, havinga sharp angle comer, from a fiat metal strip, which consists inproviding the strip with a pair of spaced parallel openings separated bya connecting strip, the apices of said openings terminating a shortdistance from the edges of the metal strip, then bending the metal stripinto a channel shape so that the connecting strip will be a part of thebottom wall ofthe channel and the openings will be oppositely arrangedin the side walls of the channel, then bending the channel strip so thatthe connecting strip will be doubled or bent upon itself and the sidewalls of the channel will close the openings therein, and then pressingthe doubled connecting strip against the bottom wall or the channeladjacent thereto.

3. The method of making a channelled bag frame, having a sharp anglecorner, from a flat metal strip, which consists in providing the stripwith a pair of spaced parallel openings separated by a connecting strip,then bending the metal strip into a channel shape so that the connectingstrip will be a part of the bottom wall of the channel and the openingswill he oppositely ar=- necting strip will be doubled or bent uponitself and the side walls of the channel will close the openingstherein.

4E. The method of making a channelled bag frame, having a sharp anglecorner, from a flat metal strip, which consists in providingthe stripwith a pair of spaced parallel triangular openings separated by aconnecting strip, the apices of said openings terminating a shortdistance from the edges of the metal strip, then bending the metal stripinto a channel shape so that the connecting strip will be a part of thebottom wall of the channel and the openings will be onpositely arrangedin the side walls of the channel, then bending the channel strip so thatthe connecting strip will be doubled or bent upon itself and the sideWalls of the channel will close the openings. therein, and then pressingthe don bled connecting strip against the bottom wall of the channeladjacent thereto.

ranged in the side walls of the channel, then bending the channelledstrip so that the conill) WHEAM C. lHERINGr.

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